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Utorrent’s forums were hacked, change your passwords

The forum for the world's most popular torrent client, Utorrent, has been hacked, leading to the possiblity of the 388,000 registered members' passwords being revealed. The administrators have released this notice as a warning that passwords have been compromised and should be changed, especially if they are re-used anywhere else. HaveIBeenPwnd is …

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KickassTorrents makes itself harder to take down: joins dark web

Considering how long governments and media lobbies have been going after torrent sites, it's almost surprising that the likes of KickassTorrents haven't joined the dark-net before now. Better late than never though it seems, as that is exactly what happens, with the popular torrent site publicising the address for all …

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Investigatory Powers Bill passes without a hitch

Update: Following a vote in the House of Commons, MPs have passed the Investigatory Powers Bill with a majority of 444 to 69. With backing from both Labour and the Conservatives, the opposition from the Liberal Democrats, Green Party and the Scottish National Party failed to make much of a …

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Multiple Competition Winners Announced

Hot on the heels of our ‘What to expect in 2016' survey came our ‘Reader Hardware Survey' and our exclusive Independence Day 2: Resurgence competition. We offer a big THANK YOU to the tens of thousands of you who took part – here are the winners. Independence Day 2: Resurgence Courtesy …

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Samsung’s flexible smartphone once again tipped for 2017

Samsung has been demoing its flexible screen technology for a while now but it looks like the company may finally be gearing up to a flexible smartphone release some time in 2017. We have previously heard rumours that the first flexible smartphone from Samsung will arrive next year but now …

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Microsoft to take on Trello with new Planner platform

Microsoft took a leaf out of the book of many a different service when it revamped its Office platform for Windows 10 and the future, by driving it with collaboration in mind. To further that end it's now launched a new platform known as Planner, which draws heavily and will …

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Computex: Final wrap-up

Computex is now over and our team have arrived back in the UK. However, given the sheer amount of news coming out of the show last week, a few smaller bits here and there did slip through the cracks- so we are going to go over those now in a small …

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Google DeepMind wants a kill switch for AI

Google's Artificial Intelligence researchers at DeepMind have proposed that a ‘kill switch' be built for AI to prevent machines from outsmarting us and taking over. The idea is to create a way to “repeatedly safely interrupt” an algorithm, according to a new paper created in association with the University of Oxford …

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